Split nights
Struggling with split nights! When baby boy is at home with us Friday - Monday, we can try to get him to have 2 short naps a day and he sleeps better. However, when he’s in childcare midweek he only has 1 nap. He’ll then treat bedtime as a nap and we have a 3-4 hour wake window in the night 💀 I’ve tried giving him a short nap after we get home from work but then he doesn’t go to bed until around 11 which isn’t ideal either.
Any tips or do we just ride it out until he grows out of it?
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You can ask Nursery to offer him two naps, if that is what works best for you, and then give sleep limits on these naps. With time, he might be more ready to transition to one nap, and hopefully, that will be reflected in his nights sleep.
At home he will wake up around 7, nap around 10-11 and 3-4, then bed around 8. I think he has too much of a good time at nursery that he forgets to nap and only has an hour some point between 12-2. I’ve asked them to try and get him to nap twice but they’ve not been successful, same as when he’s with my mum 😬
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What are the timings of his day in nursery and home? I think split nights are the hardest thing to deal with tbh ☠️